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... as nutty as a fruitcake but now a year older too! We celebrated in style by being taken on a day long tour around the Galle area in a tuk tuk! We met 3 Richmondites - our driver and two of his friends were at Richmond College in Galle together many years ago - very bizarre! One of his friends is a tea plantation owner called Guasoma Wa****sekara who gave us the most enlightening tour of his beautiful plantation. He even sells his ...

... my hideously perspiring face which scared her off or the impression of chewbacca? For those of you who don't know the volunteer project is called volunteer Sri Lanka. A man name Janaka has set it up and has built an extension at the back of his house for volunteers to stay. Each room has a big double bed and an ensuite bathroom with a fan. They are very clean and towels and toilet rolls are provided along with 3 meals a day. So this morning was a ...

... staying on for weeks at the various hotels around. Don’t buy curios from the hawkers along the ramparts. They don’t give you a better deal than the curio-shops and the quality at times is sub-standard. The shop “Bare-foot” merits a visit if you want to collect Sri Lankan handlooms, bath soaps, ceramics …… During my 2003 visit I had seen a number of women selling Beeralu lace /pillow lace but now there were very few and far between. Shakheel ...

... we left for the resort. That took us an extra 30 minutes since we stopped 3 times for jewelry, silverware and fruits. When we got back to the resort, we went straight to the beach, but not for long since there were rough seas. Then we just went to the swimming pool for another hour. Then we just relaxed in the room until dinner. We went back to the buffet and repeated the dinner of the previous night. Afterwards, we were planning how to go back to the beach tomorrow. Then we ...

... The flight took 2 hours and it was nice because the front of the aircraft was almost empty and I could stretch out over plenty of seats. When we landed in Madurai, we had to go straight to immigration. And that was a real pain, because I forgot some document. I got through after 20 minutes. Then we started the second leg of our journey: Madurai to Colombo. This flight took at least 1 hour. It ...